Dean Chalkley - Exhibitions

Exhibitions

Having shot many of today’s leading pop and rock musicians and bands led to Dean’s exhibition Now Stand Tall! Icons of the new sonic generation which opened in February 2006 at The Spitz gallery in London’s Spitalfields. In collaboration with this, he also arranged three accompanying gigs at the venue. On the 27th July 2006 the exhibition went on to open at Birmingham’s Snap Galleries and remained there for several months. The exhibition is still available online and the gallery’s director Guy White continues to sell limited edition prints.

Southend’s Underground opened in August 2006 at The Spitz gallery. “It was a snapshot of the thriving music scene that's grown up around the now defunct Junk Club and bands like The Horrors and These New Puritans.” Part of the show went on to exhibit in Florence, Italy at the Pitti Imagine Uomo festival in June 2007, and in October 2007 it was part of the Family Viewing exhibition, Teenage Kicks Episode in Shoreditch, London, and culminated in a final show entitled The End at Homestead in Clerkenwell, London.

Dean’s short film Serge and accompanying exhibition of “emotive and graceful studies” of Physical Culturists premiered at The Rex cinema and bar, in June 2005.

In 2008 Dean was asked to contribute some of his live images of The Horrors and Kings of Leon to the 100 Club’s permanent exhibition, curated by Emily Beaver.

Later in the same year and again in early 2009, Dean travelled as far a field as New York, Beijing and finally Milan to be brought together with the young stars of the contemporary music scene to advertise the re-launch of the Ray-Ban Clubmaster sunglasses. Dean documented the artists as they recorded in the studio and performed at the Ray-Ban events and exhibitions which were the results of the photographic project.

In October 2009 Dean exhibited at Camden's Roundhouse to celebrate the opening of the 2009 Electric Proms. The photographs displayed consisted of some of radio's finest faces, commissioned by the BBC. Subjects included dj's Lauren Laverne, Cerys Matthews, Craig Charles, Tom Robinson amongst others.

On the 4th March 2010, Dean opened a new show at The Book Club in Shoreditch, London. The exhibition title 'The New Faces' was thought of by none other than 'Modfather' Paul Weller who Dean had recently shot. The exhibition- a collection of studio photographs shot towards the end of last year, shows a group of sharply dressed young Mods, their attitude and their dance moves. The show ran until April 29th 2010. In 2012 Dean released "The New Faces: A Short Film", which was released exclusively on Nick Knight's curated ShowStudio.com.